Sugar Blossom

“Stand up straight! You look like a saxophone! You’re going to get a hunch back!”
How many times have you heard these kinds of admonitions from parents and teachers when you were a child? At least once a day, I’m sure!

Their praiseworthy intention was to prevent us from developing a deformed spine or hunched shoulders. But bad posture can have other consequences which are just as harmful.

If you’ve developed the habit of bad posture, energy cannot cir¬culate properly to the various parts of your body, and the balance of your entire nervous system will suffer sooner or later.

Also, posture is one of the factors of non-verbal communication that you use when talking to other people. If you stand there rigidly looking like someone who’s just swallowed a broom, you’re going to put the other person on the defensive.

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